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Russia Invades Ukraine. Again

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During a recent attack on Kyiv, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down nine Russian Kh-22 missiles. Prior to this, throughout the entire period of the full-scale war, air defense had managed to intercept only three such missiles out of more than 400 launched, according to an interview with Colonel Yurii Ihnat, head of the Communications Department of the Ukrainian Air Force Command.

According to him, during the attack on the capital, Russian forces used as many as 12 Kh-22 missiles. Each carries a warhead weighing about 1 ton, making such strikes particularly dangerous.

Ihnat emphasized that nine of these missiles were shot down.

"This is an unprecedented case that truly deserves attention and gratitude to our warriors who intercepted these missiles. Incidentally, before this case, out of more than 400 such missiles launched over the entire period, only three had been intercepted," he said.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/kyiv-attack-air-force-shoots-down-9-kh
-22-1770042905.html

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“I don’t understand why, for example, Elon Musk’s satellites are not a legitimate target for us,” Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known state television presenter closely linked to the Kremlin, said in a clip circulating online on Monday, dated Sunday. “One nuclear weapon detonation in space, as I understand it, solves this problem.”

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries believe Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink, The Associated Press reported in December. The weapon would litter Starlink orbits with shrapnel, but would also indiscriminately damage others nearby.

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-nuclear-strike-threat-elon-m
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“I don’t understand why, for example, Elon Musk’s satellites are not a legitimate target for us,” Vladimir Solovyov, a well-known state television presenter closely linked to the Kremlin, said in a clip circulating online on Monday, dated Sunday. “One nuclear weapon detonation in space, as I understand it, solves this problem.”

Intelligence agencies from two NATO countries believe Russia is developing an anti-satellite weapon to target Starlink, The Associated Press reported in December. The weapon would litter Starlink orbits with shrapnel, but would also indiscriminately damage others nearby.

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OH NOEZ!!!! THE SKY IS LITERALLY FALLING NOW... LITERALLY!!!!!



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6ixStringJoker, the Russians are threatening to destroy Starlink satellites because Starlink is attempting to stop Russia from using Starlink terminals to destroy Ukraine. Here is the story:

Ukraine to Allow Only Registered Starlink Terminals Under New ‘White List’ Rule

Only verified and registered Starlink terminals will be allowed to operate in Ukraine under new rules aimed at countering Russian drone use, according to the defense minister.

By Yuliia Zavadska | Feb. 2, 2026, 1:50 pm

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/69255

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Good news: Starlink’s drone block is legit. Bad news: Russia has a plan B.

Defense Minister moves to block all illegitimate Starlink users inside Ukraine — Russians, in other words

By Igor Kossov

02/02/2026

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/02/can-starlink-block-russian-dron
es-yes-but-devils-in-the-details/

Starlink is not the only system the Russians are using to control some of their drones. They are also hijacking local mobile networks by using Ukrainian SIM cards in their drones.

Adding functional SIM cards allows Russian drones to connect to Ukrainian (and other countries') data networks.

These trackers are able to send information back to Russia through these networks, possibly employing Telegram bots for this purpose, according to Ukrainian engineers.

James said that these systems are even more useful than Starlink, once a Russian drone is close enough to its target to initiate its terminal guidance phase. And it is why phone companies must also crack down on data accounts that are being used in this way.

“Vodafone, Kyivstar, Lifecell, they need to get their shit in a bag and start with these mobile accounts’ IMEI numbers,” he said. “They should be able to track these SIMs as they move across the country.”

“It’s not that hard. You could code up an automated system that allows you to track that stuff quickly,” and integrate it with Delta. “I totally blame the cell companies for allowing this to happen.”

Starlink doesn’t work on the territory of Russia but does work in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s military insiders believe that Russia is getting the terminals and other hardware through its many shell companies registered in other countries, such as the United Arab Emirates. Russia uses this method to get many of the components that go into its weapons.

Asked if there was a practical upper limit on these acquisitions, James, an American engineer and head of the Azov International Battalion’s fiber-optics laboratory, said it’s hard to tell: “I know that Starlink is chunking out terminals as fast as they can… so I don’t see a limit. These devices are incredibly easy to produce.”

But the hardware is only one part of the equation. Starlink users also need to have accounts. For Russia, these are also likely to be registered in other countries. These accounts are all in a database. This informs Fedorov’s solution of blocking all unregistered accounts.

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Trump Helps Putin Kill Ukrainians: A Case Study
Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 03, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-helps-putin-kill-ukrainia
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What happened last night in Ukraine was so egregious and terrible that I thought it deserved a special note. The Russians launched what was arguably their largest missile/drone attack of the war, aiming to destroy as much of the Ukrainian heating and power generation system as possible.

The number of missiles and drones that the Russians used is still being counted, but it was massive, particularly in terms of the very difficult to intercept ballistic and cruise missiles. Here is how President Zelensky described the system.

"Today, Russia carried out a record strike in terms of the use of ballistic missiles. There were 28 cruise missiles, as well as 43 missiles of various types that approach their targets along a ballistic trajectory and can be intercepted only by Patriot systems."

Here is a map that the Ukrainians released of the attack, showing that the major cities in the east of the country were basically blanketed in missiles and drones.

According to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, the attack hit Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and at least three other cities.

The temperature in Ukraine is below -20°C (-4°F). Overnight, Russia attacked with 450 drones and over 60 missiles, including ballistic ones.

Primary targets: energy and residential houses in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa, and other regions.

Putin waited for the temperatures to drop and stockpiled drones and missiles to continue his genocidal attacks against the Ukrainian people.

Neither anticipated diplomatic efforts in Abu Dhabi this week nor his promises to the United States kept him from continuing terror against ordinary people in the harshest winter.

We are dealing with terrorists who must be forced to stop violence.

Sybiha’s reference to the temperature was no accident. This attack was carefully planned to happen during the coldest stretch of the winter — indeed the coldest stretch of the last few years. Ukraine is freezing now, far worse than it was when I was there in early January. According to the BBC Weather forecast, Kyiv will not be above freezing at any time in the coming weeks. They have a forecast up for the next 14 days, and it's all below freezing — often in the teens.

So this attack was a cruel and calculated war crime, designed to freeze and kill Ukrainians with maximum effectiveness.

It was also an attack that was aided by the President of the USA. How you say? Well, a few hours before the attack, Trump engaged in a deliberate act of disinformation, designed to fool people. In an afternoon press conference from the Oval Office, Trump said that Putin not only would not attack Ukrainian energy/heating that night, but had promised not to do so for the next week. Here is the exact quote.

"I did call up President Putin and he's agreed -- they have the same cold wave that we do, maybe different because it's pretty far away, but it's the equivalent. And Ukraine is a very cold country, it's much colder than us. It's colder than, on average, Canada or colder. I asked him if he wouldn't shoot for a period of one week and he's agreed to do it."

I’m sure the better natured of you will say that Trump was misled by crafty Vlad. If that makes you feel better, so be it. I do not buy it. If Trump had been deliberately misled and made a fool of, then we should have an immediate response by the US government. The President of the US was turned into a tool of Russian disinformation.

Get those sanctions on Russia going, restart military aid to Ukraine, something.

Yet so far we have silence.

Unless Trump does something dramatic soon, even the most hopeful will have to admit that he is not a fool, but is happy to spread Russian disinformation in a way that helps Putin the most and harms Ukraine. Indeed, it is just the latest example of how Trump is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

It will almost certainly not be the last.

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Chart of the week: Ukraine's electricity imports hit record high as Russian attacks devastate energy system

By Luca Léry Moffat | February 4, 2026 9:38 AM

https://kyivindependent.com/chart-of-the-week-ukraines-electricity-imp
orts-hit-record-high/

The country imported 900 gigawatt hours of electricity last month, a 40% increase compared to December 2025, ExPro said.

Historically, Ukraine has been a net exporter of electricity. According to ExPro, the country has not exported electricity since mid-November 2025.

Russia has launched thousands of drones and hundreds of missiles at Ukraine's power infrastructure since October last year and into the beginning of 2026.

In January 2026, Ukraine imported record volumes of electricity: https://expro.com.ua/en/tidings/in-january-2026-ukraine-imported-recor
d-volumes-of-electricity

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Behind Russia’s numbers
Analysts say the true scale of military spending tells a different story

By Kathrine Frich | Feb 4, 2026

https://www.dagens.com/war/is-russia-lying-intelligence-contradicts-pu
tin-on-ukraine-war-costs

Russia’s military expenditure in recent years has been far higher than the figures listed in its official defense budget, according to an analysis by Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

The agency estimates that real spending has exceeded declared levels by as much as 66%.

The intelligence service estimates that Russia spent around $296 billion on its military in 2025. That figure would represent roughly half of total state spending and about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. Military spending accounted for about 6% of GDP in 2022, rising to 6.7% in 2023 and 8.5% in 2024.

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Russia spent $324.8 million on weapons used in a single mass combined strike on the night of Feb. 3, Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) wrote on Feb. 4.

February 4, 2026, 05:09 AM

https://english.nv.ua/russian-war/russia-traded-regional-budgets-for-m
issiles-over-ukraine-50580977.html

Based on HUR calculations, the total cost of the weapons used amounted to $324.8 million, which is more than $190 million higher than the cost of Russia’s previous mass strike on Jan. 20.

HUR stressed that 79.2% of the resources Russia used were effectively wasted, as Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 450 aerial targets.

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Why Does A Narcissist Accept Humiliation? Epstein Might Be The Answer.
Does the Risk of Greater Humiliation Loom...

By Phillips P. OBrien
Feb 05, 2026

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/why-does-a-narcissist-accept-hu
miliation

Hi All,

This week we witnessed three extraordinary events which when you put them altogether show a very worrying pattern. Indeed, linking the three of them might be the only way that they all make sense together.

First, the President of the United States of America, a narcissist of the highest order in charge of the most powerful country in the world, was publicly and richly humiliated. Donald Trump was toyed with by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and used to pass on fake news about the Russians agreeing not to attack Ukrainian heating and power generation. Having used Trump to spread the lie as far as they could, the Russians then launched arguably their largest attack on exactly the kinds of Ukrainian heating and power generation targets that Trump said Putin had promised to spare. In other words, the Russians used Trump, willingly or unwillingly, as a patsy in the most public and flagrant manner.

Second, having been humiliated in the most extreme way, and with his most devoted supporters now begging him to get tough with the Russians (see Lindsey Graham and the New York Post), Trump turned around and defended Putin, the source of his humiliation. Not even bothering to act upset, his normal behavior when Putin humiliates him, Trump said that actually the Russian deadline for halting such attacks had just ended! It was therefore ok for the Russians to do exactly what he, the President of the USA, had said that they would not do hours earlier. In an extraordinary turn of phrase, Trump said that his humiliator, Putin, had “kept his word” on the attacks.

Third, another batch of millions of documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files was released and they made a very strong case that Epstein was closely linked to elements in Russian intelligence. There were trips, emails, and other assorted hints that Epstein was associated with and even coordinated activities with members of the Russian intelligence service. The evidence was strong enough that Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a man not prone to histrionics or overstatement, said that the Poles were investigating whether Epstein had been a Russian agent. Tusk’s exact words in a government meeting were:

“There is increasing evidence and commentary in the global media suggesting that this unprecedented scandal may have been co-organized by Russian intelligence services.”

In some ways it was like watching the pieces of a puzzle fall progressively into place. The great mystery of Donald Trump’s behavior has been why he, one of the most famous narcissists in world history, reacts aggressively with extreme anger at any slight or insult, except those given by Vladimir Putin. Usually not supporting or praising Trump makes the president lash out with bitterness. When the Indian government refused to support Trump’s lie that he brought peace between them and the Pakistanis, Trump went ballistic and dramatically increased tariffs on Indian products in retaliation.

On the other hand, when it comes to Russia, Trump accepts humiliation after humiliation and still does whatever is in the best interests of Vladimir Putin. In May, I put this piece together arguing that Trump was acting exactly as a Russian agent of influence would be expected to act. I have just taken it out of paywall for anyone to read.

Is the President of the USA acting like an "Agent of Influence" for Putin?
Phillips P. OBrien · May 28, 2025
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/is-the-president-of-the-usa-act
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The piece revealed how strange and dependent Trump seemed to be on the Russians; how he constantly pushed their narrative and interests, even when, remarkably, they turned around and humiliated him time and again. I even used a recent example of a Russian humiliation of Trump because it struck me as so extraordinary, concluding with these lines:

“So, the Russians are certainly acting like Trump is enough of an agent of influence on their behalf that they can publicly insult or threaten him, and he will not take a concrete step against them.”

I do think we need to ponder on the extraordinary way Trump accepts Russian humiliations—as it stands out so remarkably from all of his other dealings. For instance, Trump’s need for constant validation and praise is so extreme that he publicly accepted the gift of Corinne Machado’s Nobel Prize. As a narcissist, he could not understand that it actually made him look ridiculous, and instead grinned like some demented child when he showed off his new present.
Donald Trump holds the Nobel Peace Prize medal in a large frame next to María Corina Machado in the White House.

Now what actually scares a narcissist? Well, it seems to be for people to understand that behind all the grandiose bluster lies an ordinary, flawed, even fraudulent human being. In other words, it is the prospect of shame/humiliation that keeps them always pressing ahead. As this article in Psychology Today clearly put it:

“Narcissists are frightened, fragile people. Rejection, humiliation, and even the tiniest of defeats can shake them to their core.”

Now, who would be able to humiliate Trump more than anyone else? The answer to that question could be Jeffrey Epstein. Trump and Epstein were clearly associated for decades and shared a predilection for sex with very young girls. As far back as 2002, Trump was boasting about this, most famously in a New York Magazine profile in which he was quoted as saying:

“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,…He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Epstein himself seems more than aware of Trump’s particular tastes for very young girls and in 2017 described Trump this way. “I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump,…Not one decent cell in his body.”

In other words, if Epstein was collecting kompromat (compromising material), Trump would loom as a very likely candidate for him to have collected it on. Any narcissist would instinctively understand that this kompromat would represent the greatest possible humiliation risk in his or her life.

This would give Russian intelligence, if it did get such kompromat from Epstein, the ability to hold it over any narcissist without having to say a word. It would be an extremely powerful tool, always operating in the background and would never even need to be used to threaten a narcissist to get them to do what the Russians want. He or she would do it automatically in a desperate need to protect against humiliation.

Btw, even if not collected, just the possibility of such kompromat existing would prey on the mind of any narcissist. Now I have no idea if such kompromat exists, so I cannot say. However, the release of the Epstein files makes it clear that he had connections with Russian intelligence—and if he collected such kompromat, who knows where it would have gone.

Thanks for reading Phillips’s Newsletter! This post is public so feel free to share it.

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Ukraine strikes heart of Russia’s nuclear blackmail — hitting Oreshnik launch site with domestic FP-5 cruise missiles

Ukraine’s FP-5 “Flamingo” reaches Kapustin Yar.

By Olena Mukhina | Feb 05, 2026

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/05/ukraine-strikes-heart-of-russia
s-nuclear-blackmail-hitting-oreshnik-launch-site-with-domestic-fp-5-cruise-missiles/

When a non-nuclear state hits a nuclear state's infrastructure

The strikes on Kapustin Yar represent the first known case in which a non-nuclear state has successfully targeted infrastructure used to prepare nuclear-capable ballistic missiles on the territory of a nuclear power.

Ukrainian strike systems, including the FP-5 Flamingo, demonstrated the ability to reach strategic targets deep inside Russia, shattering the perception of the invulnerability of Russian missile test ranges and altering the deterrence balance not only for Ukraine, but for Europe as a whole.

This constitutes an asymmetric response to Russia’s long-standing nuclear blackmail, which Moscow has used for years to pressure the West and attempt to paralyze support for Ukraine.

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The US Air Force has successfully tested the ERAM cruise missile for Ukraine

By Kyiv Post | Feb. 4, 2026, 12:41 pm

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/69408

The US Air Force has successfully tested the low-cost Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) cruise missile being developed for Ukraine.

According to the Militarniy news outlet, citing official US Air Force materials, the Jan. 21, 2026 test was at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The project team met all key objectives, including confirming the full functionality of the missile’s warhead.
https://militarnyi.com/uk/news/raketueramvyprobuvalyzbojovoyu-chastyno
yu/

One notable aspect of the program is its rapid pace: less than 16 months passed between the signing of the first contract and the live test. Speed was a priority in developing a missile designed to be affordable, mass-producible, and low-cost.

The successful trial marked another step toward serial production.

The US Air Force Armaments Working Group reported that production of ERAM missiles for Ukraine began in spring 2025, with the first batch of 840 units scheduled for delivery in October 2026.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has also informed Congress that the missiles can be launched from both US-made F-16 fighters and Soviet-era MiG-29 aircraft.

ERAM missiles are being produced by two companies: Virginia-based CoAspire and California-based Zone 5 Technologies.

CoAspire’s version, known as the Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile (RAACM), weighs about 500 pounds (roughly 250 kilograms) and carries a combined penetrating and high-explosive warhead. It is designed with a multi-mode fuse and can be aircraft-mounted, reaching subsonic speeds of up to 200 meters (656 feet) per second.

Technical specifications for Zone 5’s variant, dubbed Rusty Dagger, have not been disclosed, though its capabilities are expected to be similar.

The Pentagon expects production to reach around 1,000 ERAM missiles over two years – roughly 42 units per month.

As per Militarniy, US military officials said Washington is accelerating several programs aimed at producing inexpensive cruise missiles, either by extending the range of existing systems or developing entirely new designs using alternative materials and technologies.

Under the Enterprise Test Vehicle (ETV) program, the US ultimately aims to produce millions of such munitions.

In 2024, five defense companies - Anduril Industries, IS4S, Leidos/Dynetics, and Zone 5 - began designing and testing low-cost cruise missile prototypes with support from the Defense Innovation Agency and the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center.

In late August 2025, the Trump administration approved a potential $825 million arms sale to Ukraine, pending congressional approval.

The package includes 3,350 ERAM missiles and related equipment, funded through the Jump Start program by Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands, with additional support from US Foreign Military Financing.

The ERAM - an air-launched “mini cruise missile” with a reported range of up to 400 kilometers - is intended to give Ukraine a low-cost, high-volume long-range strike capability, allowing Ukrainian forces to hit military assets and infrastructure deep behind enemy lines.

The package also includes mission-planning software, spare parts, support equipment, and technical assistance.

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Shut up, Ted.

Nobody cares. Nobody ever cared.

And everything you've ever posted in this thread has been an easily provable or disprovable lie.


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Active-duty Russian service members continue to visit schools in occupied Ukraine and engage with children and youth on the topic of military service. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported on February 1 that paratroopers of the Russian 7th Airborne (VDV) Division visited a secondary school in occupied Donetsk City as part of the VDV’s “Heroes of Our Time” military-patriotic project.[15] Secondary school students spoke with paratroopers about their experiences in the Russian military, interacted with military equipment, and learned how to operate drones. Students and youth activists of the “People’s Druzhina” youth project met on January 30 with active-duty fighters of the Maxym Kryvonos Battalion and members of Rosgvardia’s Vostok-Donetsk Special Rapid Response Unit (SOBR) to learn about combat first aid and Soviet military history.[16] Russian soldiers’ constant engagement with Ukrainian children and youth serves the purpose of normalizing the presence of the Russian military in occupied areas, while also setting conditions to encourage Ukrainian children to consider future careers in the Russian military.

Russian occupation administrations are intensifying efforts to formalize the militarization of schools in occupied Ukraine in line with the mandatory Russian “Fundamentals of Security and Protection of the Motherland” (OBZR) curriculum. Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Head Denis Pushilin reported on January 28 that the Donetsk Oblast occupation government plans to equip classrooms in 513 schools in occupied Donetsk Oblast with equipment for OBZR courses.[17] Sevastopol occupation governor Mikhail Razvozhaev reported on February 2 that the Crimea occupation administration is equipping schools for OZBR courses under a grant from the Russian “Youth and Children” national project.[18] Razvozhaev specified that Sevastopol School No.39 will receive tactical simulators, sets and models for “defense fundamentals,” military-patriotic education materials, modern personal protective equipment, and first aid training equipment. Razvozhaev also noted that a Russian soldier who fought against Ukraine is a teacher at School No.39 and is sharing his experiences with schoolchildren. OBZR intends to codify the increasingly military-patriotic slant of the Russian education system since 2022, and Russian authorities have been imposing it on the school system in occupied Ukraine to accomplish the same effect.[19] Drone assembly and operation, for example, are now a required part of mandatory OBZR courses.[20] OBZR seeks to normalize the forced militarization of society in occupied Ukraine while also preparing Ukrainian children for eventual service in the Russian military or the Russian industrial base.[21]

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-occupatio
n-update-february-5-2026/

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Ukraine’s kill rate just overtook Russia’s troop replacement

By Yuri Zoria | Feb. 06, 2026

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/06/ukraines-kill-rate-just-overtoo
k-russias-troop-replacement-syrskyi-says/

406,000 mobilized, 410,000 lost: Russia loses six soldiers for every Ukrainian soldier killed, Syrskyi says

"The role of their instructors, who, having just returned from battles, train newcomers, is hard to overestimate," Syrskyi wrote.

This veteran-to-instructor pipeline is a key reason Ukraine's best brigades consistently outperform newly formed units. Syrskyi said the military is working on "further improving the quality of training."

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Keep it real please


Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, Ted.

Nobody cares. Nobody ever cared.

And everything you've ever posted in this thread has been an easily provable or disprovable lie.



Musk cuts Russian army Starlink in Ukraine, Kremlin troops lose web access

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/musk-cuts-russian-army-starlink-i
n-ukraine-kremlin-troops-lose-web-access/ar-AA1VPJhz

SpaceX cuts Russian military link to Starlink satellites, Elon Musk says

https://nypost.com/2026/02/01/world-news/spacex-cuts-russian-military-
link-to-starlink-satellites-elon-musk-says/


Ok, the post you are referring to above is based on Musk, Russia and StarLink, so prove it wrong Gilligan. I can give you more links proving it true, but these and the original should do. Now, I say it is you who are, always easily proven wrong because you make your point the way stupid people do. Let's see who is right.

too funny...

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Ukraine aimed a barrage of Flamingo missiles at Russia’s Oreshnik missile base — and apparently missed

Ukraine’s Flamingo cruise missiles are back in action in small numbers. But it seems they missed a very valuable target.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/06/flamingo-attack/

On the basis of the low rate of attacks and the limited damage, Thorkill described the Flamingo as a "marketing-propaganda hoax." The apparently failed recent attack on Kapustin Yar might not compel critics of the Flamingo to reconsider their skepticism.

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Ukrainian drone pilot training program turned into a video game so anyone can "feel the rush" of modern warfare

By Archie Clarke

February 6, 2026 / 11:57 AM EST / CBS News

London — Gamers around the world can now buy and play at home a pared-down version of a first-person drone training program developed and used by the Ukrainian armed forces. The game's evolution — from battlefield training tool to home entertainment — is a notable first, and it is tied directly to Ukraine's ongoing efforts to repel Russia's four-year, full-scale invasion.

"Ukrainian Fight Drone Simulator" (UFDS) is available to buy online for about $30.

More at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-drone-program-now-a-video-game-fo
r-gaming-modern-warfare-rush/

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Interview with Ukrainian Colonel Volodymyr Polevyi

February 7, 2026, 05:16 AM

https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-withdrawing-on-pokrovsk-front-as-
russia-suffers-heavy-losses-military-50581829.html

. . . To rescue one soldier, about 20 Ukrainians may be involved in pulling that wounded person out. The Russians have a completely different concept and a completely different approach. They send people one way and tell them to shoot themselves so there is no need to worry, fear or think about what to do with their wounds. You must move forward regardless; no one will extract you. Your task is to assault.

These are two fundamentally different concepts. Technology certainly helps us in this. And the more technology we have, the less need there is to storm positions with infantry, because entire sectors can genuinely be handed over to aerial drones for strikes and to ground systems for fire control.

Question — I understand you are not a psychiatrist to diagnose the enemy, but based on your impressions and reflections, how have the Russians managed to turn mobilized people into something like a zombie apocalypse — marching one way and ready to simply shoot themselves afterward?

Fear, pressure and, of course, the influence of propaganda that essentially tells people the homeland needs their death. They go to that death. It is a perverted psychology and technology, but nevertheless, it somehow works. In totalitarian societies, it works.

Imagine North Korea. It sent tens of thousands of people here simply by issuing an order: You are going to die in Ukraine tomorrow. They went and died. Now they are heroes in North Korea. What interests were they fighting for? What were North Koreans fighting for?

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Russia tries to reactivate blocked Starlink terminals

February 7, 2026, 10:46 AM

https://english.nv.ua/nation/russia-trying-to-reactivate-blocked-starl
ink-terminals-ukraine-adviser-50581904.html

Ukrainian Defense Ministry adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov, known by the call sign Flash, said Russian forces are trying to find ways to reactivate Starlink terminals that were recently blocked for their use on Feb. 7.

“Of course, the enemy is looking for ways to reactivate Starlink. They share ideas in their groups, and then those posts circulate in our groups. All of their ideas are trivial: send someone to an administrative service center for money, use a fictitious LLC, remove Starlink from a captured drone, and so on,” Beskrestnov wrote on his Telegram channel.

He said Ukrainian authorities were aware of these risks and had developed ways to counter them.

“All of these Starlink terminals will be blocked — we know how. As for those who want to try to make ‘easy money’ for the enemy, they face imprisonment, and not a short one. This is not setting a car on fire and running away. This is going to an administrative service center and effectively documenting your crime for the court. So my advice to traitors is: don’t even try,” the defense minister’s adviser added.

Launch of Starlink terminal verification in Ukraine and its impact on invaders

On Feb. 2, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the launch of Starlink terminal verification in Ukraine. He said that only verified and registered terminals will operate in the country, while all others will be disconnected to counter the use of Starlink by Russian forces.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk agreed to help Ukraine address the issue.

On Feb. 5, Defense Ministry technology adviser Serhiy “Flash” Beskrestnov said Russian troops halted assaults in many sections of the front line due to the mass shutdown of Starlink satellite communications, calling the situation a “catastrophe” for the enemy.

Later the same day, Fedorov confirmed that Starlink terminals used by Russian forces in the war against Ukraine had already been blocked, while registration of Ukrainian terminals, including through administrative service centers, is ongoing.

Read also:
Starlink shutdown exposed scale of Russian dependence on the system – Flash
https://english.nv.ua/nation/starlink-shutdown-exposed-russian-depende
nce-triggered-panic-ukraine-adviser-50581820.html


Read also:
Starlink block may reduce Russian strikes on railways and Pokrovsk-Pavlohrad route – ISW
https://english.nv.ua/nation/isw-says-blocking-russian-starlink-may-we
aken-strikes-on-ukraine-s-rear-logistics-50581511.html

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Russia was never supposed to have Starlink, so why did SpaceX wait so long to cut it off?

5:51 pm, February 6, 2026

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/07/russia-was-never-supposed-to-h
ave-starlink-so-why-did-spacex-wait-so-long-to-cut-it-off

So what does the cutoff mean for Russia’s frontline units?

As noted above, both armies primarily use satellite connectivity to transmit live drone footage to commanders. This enables them to direct small assault squads and receive real-time intelligence from the field.

Satellite links also help manage logistics under challenging conditions, where enemy drones monitor supply routes many kilometers behind the front lines. Without satellite channels to transmit heavy data loads, supplying frontline troops would be even more difficult.

However, there are other high-speed Internet options. Before Starlink, Russian command posts (especially those located near Ukrainian territories occupied back in 2014–2015) used civilian fiber-optic networks and extended them to frontline positions. They’ve also created radio repeater networks to extend communication ranges. Both sides use relay drones to extend UAV ranges.

These communications systems are, of course, far less convenient and more labor-intensive than commercial satellite networks.

Are there any Starlink alternatives for Russia?

There are only a few companies in the world that provide high-speed satellite Internet with low signal lag. Roughly a dozen others are at various stages of building their own networks, including Russia’s Starlink alternative, Rassvet (“Dawn”).

However, the Russian project is far behind. Although it was expected to be online by 2027, production of the low-orbit satellites for the constellation hasn’t started yet. Russia’s existing civilian and military satellites are also unsuitable as alternatives to Starlink due to low Internet speeds, high signal latency, and insufficient bandwidth.

From a political perspective, China’s Starlink competitors may appear to be a viable alternative for the Russian military (even if their devices are smuggled into the country). However, even the country’s top project, the Shanghai-based “Thousand Sails” (Qianfan) network, has encountered problems. Launch delays in 2025 mean it’s unlikely to provide global coverage by 2027, as planned.

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Putin’s drones are not up to par: Engines fail after hours, not days

By Kathrine Frich | Feb 8, 2026

https://www.dagens.com/war/putins-drones-are-not-up-to-par-engines-fai
l-after-hours-not-days

Ukrainian specialists are getting an unexpected look inside the technology used against them. What they are finding, they say, reveals sharp differences in quality and durability. The assessments come from engineers who are repairing captured and damaged drone components for reuse.

Repairing for the front

The Ukrainian ZAMPOTECH Foundation is running a project aimed at supporting the armed forces by restoring engines recovered from Russian Shahed and Geran drones.

According to the foundation, refurbishing a single operational engine takes about two weeks and typically requires usable parts taken from three or four damaged units. The repaired engines are then donated for Ukrainian military use.

Quality compared

ZAMPOTECH engineers say most Shahed and Geran drones are powered by MD550 four-cylinder piston engines, allowing the aircraft to reach speeds of around 185 km/h.

Based on their analysis, engines assembled in Iran are the most durable and reliable. Russian- and Chinese-made replacements, however, perform significantly worse.

“The Russian engine operates for a maximum of four to five hours, which is enough for one or two flights. Only the Chinese engine has worse performance, flying for about one and a half to two hours before it completely seizes up,” ZAMPOTECH said in a statement.

Simplified design

According to the Ukrainian engineers, the inferior performance suggests that Russian manufacturers simplified the original Iranian design to cut costs and speed up production.

ZAMPOTECH’s analysis found that several components had been removed from Russian-made versions of the engine, including the starter motor and the heavy flywheel, reducing durability and operational lifespan.

The foundation says these changes make the engines far less reliable under combat conditions.

From Shahed to Geran

Russia initially relied exclusively on Iranian-made Shahed drones, which it began stockpiling as early as 2021, according to a Bloomberg report cited in the article.

Over time, Moscow acquired production technologies and began manufacturing its own versions, known as Geran drones, at facilities in the Russian region of Tatarstan.

Although Iran sold Russia a license to produce the drones, journalist Lukasz Michalik notes that Tehran is not responsible for subsequent design changes introduced by Russian manufacturers.

Sources: ZAMPOTECH Foundation, Bloomberg, WP.
https://tech.wp.pl/wyciagaja-je-z-dronow-rosjan-mowia-otwarcie-ile-sa-
warte,7251042826905984a

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Parts of Ukraine’s defense industrial base (DIB) have achieved self-sufficiency such that Ukraine can start exports to the West. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on February 8 that Ukraine is opening its military exports and will open 10 export centers in northern European states and the Baltic states in 2026.[17] Zelensky did not specify which weapons Ukraine will export, but stated that Ukraine will start to jointly produce Ukrainian drones in Germany in mid-February 2025 and that Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK) have opened joint production lines in the UK. Ukraine began in 2023 to pursue its long-term objective of ensuring the self-sufficiency of its DIB such that Ukraine could be less reliant on foreign military provisions in the future.[18] Western security and financial aid to Ukraine in the past years helped the Ukrainian DIB in these endeavors, and ISW assessed in early 2024 that Ukraine would require considerable Western military assistance for several years before Ukraine achieved self-sufficiency. Ukrainian exports, as well as joint European-Ukrainian and US-Ukrainian production, are mutually beneficial, as the West can use Ukraine’s experience fighting a 21st-century war with an accelerated offense-defense technological cycle to bolster its defenses and own DIBs.

https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-february-8-2026/

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Russian military promises $240 to Ukrainians who register Starlink terminals

Ukrainians who participate in Russian schemes to illegally register Starlink terminals face 15 years to life imprisonment, warns Ukraine’s defense technology advisor

by Maria Tril 09/02/2026

"Traitors are rightly hesitant, because we will cross-check the numbers of Starlinks captured from the enemy with data from administrative service centers, and these 'lovers of easy money' will receive 15 years or life imprisonment if their Starlink causes the deaths of people," Beskrestnov said.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/09/russian-military-promises-240-t
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Bishop links the conflict to moral and religious decline inside Russia

February 8, 2026

As the war in Ukraine grinds on, senior figures in Russia’s Orthodox Church are offering spiritual explanations for why peace remains elusive.

Church officials have framed the war in explicitly theological terms.

Spiritual causes cited

A senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church has claimed that interest in occult practices, “evil spirits” and abortions are preventing an end to the war in Ukraine, according to The Moscow Times.

Bishop Pitirim (Tvorogov), head of the Skopin Diocese, said these phenomena have provoked divine anger and contributed to the continuation of the conflict.

“In a country at war, a huge number of people turn to evil spirits for help,” Pitirim was quoted as saying.

Rise of the occult

According to the bishop, Russia has seen a sharp increase in what he described as occult activity.

He claimed that by 2024, “the number of clairvoyants, sorcerers, magicians, tarot readers, numerologists and fortune tellers will have tripled.”

Pitirim said demand for “occult objects” would continue to grow in 2025, suggesting that spiritual practices outside Orthodox Christianity have become increasingly widespread during wartime.

In his view, this shift has undermined the possibility of peace.

Abortion and morality

The bishop also placed responsibility on women who choose to have abortions, arguing that such decisions contribute to what he described as a broader moral collapse.

“It is not God’s will that peace be concluded in this way, because of the large number of sorcerers who have emerged and the large number of abortions, especially in recent times,” Pitirim said.

He added that Russians, in his assessment, had begun living “in a deeply immoral way.”

A familiar narrative

This is not the first time representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church have linked the war in Ukraine to moral failings.

The Moscow Times noted that Archimandrite Andrei Tkachev, a cleric known for his pro-war views, has previously argued that Russians were “unworthy of peace and happiness” because of what he described as moral degradation.

“Because of depravity, wars arise. And we will not have peace until we repent,” Tkachev said on an earlier occasion.

Church and war rhetoric

In January, the Russian Orthodox Church organized a nationwide prayer campaign aimed at discouraging abortions.

One prayer urged believers to ask that “those possessed by thoughts of infanticide may come to their senses and be freed from this senseless darkness.”

That same month, President Vladimir Putin told Orthodox believers that Russian troops were carrying out a “holy mission” in Ukraine, saying the invasion was taking place “at the behest of God.”

https://www.dagens.com/war/russian-priest-claims-evil-spirits-and-abor
tions-hinder-peace-in-ukraine

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Ukraine promised 4 gigawatts of new power. Private firms built most of what exists (INFOGRAPHICS)

Corruption froze the tender meant to let businesses fill the gap.

By Peeter Helme | Feb 9, 2026

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/09/ukraine-power-crisis-corruption/

Ukraine imported $1.7 billion worth of gas-fired power plant equipment over four years of full-scale war—enough, on paper, for 1.6 gigawatts of new generation capacity. By January 2026, only 500–600 megawatts actually works, according to Ekonomichna Pravda’s customs data analysis. And the state built barely any of it.

“Zelenskyy’s gigawatt”—as Ukrainians dubbed the president’s December 2023 pledge to build 1,000 MW of new maneuverable generation by winter—has become a measure of how far political promises travel before they hit the ground. That original target later grew to four gigawatts “in the coming years.”

The state’s own project portal lists 144 planned projects totaling 3.68 GW, with a budget of 143 billion hryvnia ($3.3 billion). Almost none are finished.

Former Ukrenergo chairman Volodymyr Kudrytskyi—who synchronized Ukraine’s grid with Europe in the first weeks of the invasion and was dismissed in September 2024 in what critics called political retaliation—told Texty that government efforts and state companies delivered just 10–15% of the capacity that came online in 2025. Private businesses built the rest—roughly 85–90% of what actually generates electricity today.

The installation bottleneck

The customs data tells a story of massive private-sector investment. Cogeneration equipment imports surged from $22 million in 2021 to an estimated $940 million in 2025—a 43-fold increase. Transformers, diesel generators, and gas-fired mini power plants flooded into the country.

The actual operational figure—500–600 MW per Kudrytskyi, or up to 762 MW per the Energy Ministry—tells you how wide the execution gap runs.

But importing a power plant and connecting it to the grid are different things. Equipment can sit in warehouses for months awaiting installation, certification, and grid connection. At an average cost of roughly $1.1 million per megawatt, the $1.7 billion in imported cogeneration stations should yield about 1.6 GW. The actual operational figure—500–600 MW per Kudrytskyi, or up to 762 MW per the Energy Ministry—tells you how wide the execution gap runs.

The ministry’s figure is the highest among competing government capacity estimates. Vice Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba puts the number at 570 MW. The State Energy Efficiency Agency says about 500 MW.

The discrepancy matters: the ministry that claims the most is the same one engulfed in the Energoatom corruption scandal—an affair that toppled two ministers, forced the resignation of presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak in late November 2025, and triggered Zelenskyy’s largest wartime government reshuffle.

The tender that corruption froze

Recognizing it could not build four gigawatts alone, the government launched a competition inviting private companies to construct gas-fired power plants of 5–80 MW each. Ukrenergo would compensate capital costs—up to €855,000 per megawatt—over ten years.

The first round targeted 700 MW. In April 2025, winners were announced for over 300 MW. Then, the commission stopped meeting. Most proposals were rejected. In December, the commission’s chairman, Yurii Sheik, was detained on corruption charges related to a scheme at Energoatom.

The Energoatom affair runs deeper than one arrested chairman.

The tender was blocked for eight months. The government allowed it to resume only at the end of 2025. By then, business confidence in state-run energy tenders had taken a beating—during the very winter when those megawatts were needed most.

The Energoatom affair runs deeper than one arrested chairman. Euromaidan Press reported in November that one energy expert estimated the corruption scheme’s real scale at up to $1 billion—ten times NABU’s official $100 million figure.

The scandal reached Zelenskyy’s inner circle: his former business partner Tymur Mindich is suspected of orchestrating the kickback network, and Yermak—once the country’s second-most powerful figure—resigned after NABU raided his home.

The government’s 4 GW target dwarfs what has actually been built. Even the most optimistic official estimate (Energy Ministry, 762 MW) accounts for less than a fifth of what was promised—and the ministry making that claim lost two ministers to the Energoatom corruption scandal.

Why there are no quick fixes

Ukraine’s centralized power system—thermal plants, substations, transmission lines—has been systematically destroyed. Russia launched 612 targeted energy attacks in 2025 alone, Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal told parliament. Peak winter demand hits 20 GW. Available capacity plus imports reaches about 13 GW.

The solution that energy experts, international donors, and private investors all agree upon—distributed generation, hundreds of small gas-fired plants scattered across the country rather than concentrated in a few large, vulnerable facilities—is exactly what private businesses have been building.

Cities like Zhytomyr, which invested early in cogeneration with international help, kept power running longer during attacks that blacked out Kyiv—not immune to disruption, but far more resilient.

But scaling distributed generation from hundreds of megawatts to the four gigawatts Ukraine needs takes years, not months. Equipment must be manufactured, shipped, installed, certified, connected, and protected from Russian strikes.

Each step has its own timeline. Each has its own bureaucratic and financial bottleneck. The State Energy Efficiency Agency’s latest target—250 cogeneration units producing 1.1 GW within two years—requires €1.9 billion ($2.26 billion) in investment that has not yet been secured.

For millions of Ukrainians enduring rolling blackouts and burst heating pipes in subzero temperatures, the gap between announcements and operational megawatts is measured in frozen apartments, shuttered factories, and a grid that cannot be rebuilt faster than Russia destroys it—especially when corruption blocks the people willing to build.

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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1447: Ukraine secures commitments for 250 Western fighter jets, including 150 Swedish Gripens and 100 French Rafales

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/10/russo-ukrainian-war-day-1447-uk
raine-secures-commitments-for-250-western-fighter-jets-including-150-swedish-gripens-and-100-french-rafales/

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Terror over Starlink: Russia pressures families of POWs to restore drone communications

Author: Kateryna Danishevska | Tue, February 10, 2026 – 15:20

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/terror-for-starlink-russia-pressures-f
amilies-1770729177.html

Russians are seeking a replacement for blocked Starlink systems and are forcing families of prisoners of war to register terminals in their own names, Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for Treatment of Prisoners of War said in a statement.

The Defense Ministry of Ukraine, in cooperation with SpaceX, managed to disable illegal Starlink terminals that Russians used to control kamikaze drones.

"Seeking a way out of the difficult situation they found themselves in, occupiers turned attention to families of prisoners of war. Cases of threats and demands to officially register Starlink terminals in their own names have been recorded. This equipment is then supposed to be used against Ukraine and Ukrainians," the statement said.

Coordination Headquarters for Treatment of Prisoners of War stressed that Russians are exploiting the vulnerability of POW families, for whom they are a one-time resource. In addition, official registration of the enemy terminal makes it possible to identify the person who did it.

"If a terminal is used to control drones that destroy infrastructure and take lives, the fact of registering a terminal by a Ukrainian citizen is grounds for criminal liability," the statement said.

It recently became known that Russia is increasingly using Starlink on drones. This allowed them to bypass Ukrainian air defense and electronic warfare systems.

After that, Ukraine's Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said he promptly contacted SpaceX to resolve this issue.

Later, the Ministry of Digital Transformation reported that Ukraine is introducing a whitelist. It refers to a list of verified Starlink terminals that would work stably for every Ukrainian user, but not for the enemy.

The adviser to Defense Ministry head Serhii Beskrestnov (callsign Flash) said Russian forces are looking for ways to activate Starlink terminals at the front.

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The New Laser That Can Take Down Aircraft

Russian strikes have forced Ukraine to build high-tech air defense on the cheap.

By Simon Shuster | February 10, 2026

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/02/ukraine-drones-l
asers-iron-dome/685944/

If you’ve never seen a laser shoot an aircraft out of the sky, the experience can be unsettling. The weapon fits comfortably into the trunk of a car. It makes no noise and emits no light, not even the glowing red beam that’s so familiar from the movies. When a team of Ukrainian soldiers and engineers took me to see their prototype the other day, it seemed easy to use. Almost too easy.

The operator set up the laser cannon on the roof of his pickup truck in the middle of an empty field. It resembles a hobbyist’s telescope with some cameras affixed to the sides. For target practice, one of the engineers launched a small drone, and it flew a few hundred yards away from us, hovering in the gauzy winter sky. The laser swiveled as its cameras followed the target. The operator shouted, “Fire!” Within seconds, the drone began to burn as if struck by invisible lightning, then fell to the ground in a fiery arc.

The Ukrainian model, known as the Sunray, is not the world’s first laser weapon system. The U.S. Navy has one called Helios, which Lockheed Martin developed as part of a $150 million contract signed in 2018. Four years later, the first Helios laser was installed on a U.S. destroyer to defend against enemy drones. The creators of the Sunray, whose existence has not been previously reported, told me they built their laser in about two years for a few million dollars, and they expect to sell it for a few hundred thousand dollars.

Pavlo Yelizarov, the newly appointed commander of Ukraine’s air-defense forces, sees this price differential as a result of the war with Russia. “Many American companies are driven by money,” he told me last month at his office in Kyiv. “For them, it’s a job. They do it. They get paid. We have another component at play: the need to survive. That’s why we are moving faster.”

In recent months, President Volodymyr Zelensky has prioritized the push to deploy Ukraine’s own air defenses as the United States and Europe have failed to provide enough of them. A lot of U.S. weapons are being diverted to the Middle East, where the U.S. needs them for both a possible strike on Iran and defense against retaliatory strikes from Iranian drones and rockets. The Europeans, for their part, are loath to give Ukraine any more of the weapons they might one day need to guard their own people from Russian drones.

The Ukrainian response has been a race to build a bootstrapped version of the Iron Dome, Israel’s short-range air-defense system, which is thought to be the most effective in the world. (Lockheed Martin is now at work on a comparable system for the United States, which President Trump has dubbed the “Golden Dome.”) But the task of shooting projectiles out of the sky—or, as ballistic-missile defense is often described, “hitting a bullet with a bullet”—has bedeviled engineers at least since the invention of ballistic missiles during World War II. Even in the case of Israel, which has nearly 30 times less territory than Ukraine, the construction of an effective air-defense shield took about four years. A single battery of Iron Dome interceptors cost as much as $100 million in 2012.

Ukraine’s arms manufacturers have tried for several years to get the same results on a far tighter budget, and a handful of them took me to see their inventions last week. These include a 3-D-printed interceptor drone, a carbon-fiber clone of Russia’s best air-defense rocket, wheeled robots armed with chain-gun turrets, and more exotic weapons like the Sunray. Taken together, the trajectory of their development suggests that Ukraine may soon be able to neutralize one of the biggest threats to its security: the swarms of Russian drones that continue to terrorize its civilians and destroy its infrastructure.

“The anti-drone dome is not about the future,” Ukraine’s new defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, said last month. “It’s about survival today.”

When Yelizarov was put in charge of building Ukraine’s dome, the appointment received high marks in both political and military circles. But his résumé does not make him an obvious fit for the job. Like Zelensky, he spent much of his career in the TV industry, serving as the lead producer of one of Ukraine’s most popular political talk shows. At the start of the Russian invasion in 2022, he dropped that job and began to develop combat drones with some of his friends, pooling their savings to buy components and assembling them inside Yelizarov’s old TV studio.

Their drones’ initial sorties over the battlefield were promising enough to attract the attention of the U.S. government, which sent truckloads of equipment and C-4 explosives to help Yelizarov develop his fleet. The spearfishing enthusiast soon took on a nom de guerre: Lazar, in honor of the biblical Lazarus, and he founded a drone unit known as Lasar’s Group, now part of the Ukrainian National Guard. According to official estimates, drone strikes conducted by Lasar’s Group have destroyed more than $13 billion in Russian military equipment, a kill rate that got Yelizarov promoted in 2023 to the rank of colonel.

Read: The real trouble with America’s flip-flop on Ukrainian weapons

Last year, as U.S.-mediated peace talks raised the prospect of a cease-fire, a lot of drone makers in Ukraine began looking for ways to sell their products to foreign clients, and Yelizarov encouraged them. “While the market is hot,” he said, “we want foreign companies to buy stakes in Ukrainian ones and start developing products together.” Such joint ventures could allow Ukraine to produce more of its weapons elsewhere in Europe, ensuring stability of supply if factories inside Ukraine get bombed.

A few months ago, a barrage of Russian drones destroyed the main facility that produces drones for Lasar’s Group, incinerating about $35 million in equipment, Yelizarov said, including a large stockpile of weapons. (The target and damage from the attack have not been previously revealed.) Similar strikes laid waste throughout the winter to the Ukrainian power grid and heating system as temperatures dropped far below freezing.

Still, when he got the offer last month to lead the defense against such attacks, Yelizarov’s first instinct was to turn it down. The timeline seemed unrealistic. Zelensky wanted the new air-defense shield to be up and running by summer. Yelizarov said that Fedorov, the new defense minister, appealed to his pride: “He told me: ‘Look, we can spend a long time watching the football game and criticizing the players on the field. But I’m offering you a chance to get in the game and show what you can do.’”

That task has been daunting, and Yelizarov already looked worse for wear when we met during his second week on the job. He had just returned that day from a meeting with Zelensky, who grilled the new commander about the intricacies of “sky protection.” In his new role as the deputy head of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yelizarov will need to assess the variety of air-defense systems coming out of the domestic weapons industry, organize the best ones under a unified command, and develop ways to choose the most appropriate one to shoot down an incoming threat.

The key to success, he said, would be efficiency. Too often, Ukraine has been forced to launch scarce and expensive foreign missiles to shoot down cheap Russian drones such as the Shaheds, some of which run on lawnmower engines. “Sure, you can use a Bentley to haul potatoes,” Yelizarov said. “But it’s probably not the smartest way to do that job.”

One solution to the problem of efficiency has emerged from a company called Skyfall. It was founded in 2022, during the early months of the invasion, by a young electrical engineer who prefers not to publicize his name for security reasons. His most popular invention is a bomber drone called the Vampire, which proved to be such a menace on the battlefield that the Russians nicknamed it Baba Yaga—“the Wicked Witch.”

In December, during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show, a war reporter for the Kremlin’s main propaganda channel asked why the military had failed to develop its own version of this weapon after nearly four years of war. “We are completely lacking large hexacopters like the Baba Yaga, which the Ukrainian armed forces actively use,” the reporter said. Putin, scribbling on a notepad, admitted to the “shortage” of such technology, and promised that his defense ministry is working on it.

For the team at Skyfall, the exchange served as a vindication, demonstrating Ukraine’s ability to out-engineer the Russians in one of the most crucial weapons in this war. Last spring, when I first toured Skyfall’s factory in Kyiv, its engineers were working on ways to shoot down Shaheds, but its drones could not yet go fast enough to catch them mid-flight. By the time I visited again last week, Skyfall had developed a much faster interceptor, tested it, and put it into mass production. “The problem with supply is solved,” the founder told me during the tour. “We can make as many as the military needs.”

Officially known as P1-Sun, the weapon resembles a large thermos, and has four rotors and about 500 grams of C-4 at its base. The phallic design led its developers, mostly young geeks and gamers, to nickname it Pisun, which means “dick” in Ukrainian. (Some of Skyfall’s competitors refer to it with a note of jealousy as “the dildo drone.”)

Inside the factory, the smell of molten plastic hit me in the face as we entered “the farm,” where row upon row of 3-D printers churned out hundreds of fuselages for the P1-Sun. The drones have already been used to blast more than 1,000 targets out of the sky, including more than 700 Shaheds, according to the company’s estimates. By the end of this year, advances in the P1-Sun’s communication software will allow the Ukrainian armed forces to position the units around the country, ready to launch from a distance whenever radar detects an incoming fleet of attack drones overhead.

The weapons have attracted plenty of interest from foreign clients, and Skyfall recently presented it at arms fairs in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. “The drone industry in Ukraine today is the biggest industry for investors,” Zelensky told students on Friday at the Kyiv Aviation Institute. This year, he said, Ukraine will open 10 “export centers” in Germany, the Baltic states, and other parts of Europe, expanding the market to many of the approximately 450 companies that produce drones in Ukraine today.

None of them has yet made any real technological breakthroughs. But they have learned to mass-produce weapons of brutal efficiency with the cheapest techniques and components available. For some of the players in this business, the advances have felt dangerously fast. “We have opened a Pandora’s box that terrifies me,” the founder of Skyfall said. The P1-Sun costs a little more than $1,000 and can reach heights of more than 30,000 feet. “Imagine if it hangs up there in the path of a civilian airliner,” the founder said. “Nobody would even know who did it.”

As the war enters its fifth year, Ukraine sees no alternative to unleashing these weapons into the world. Its reliance on Western hardware has left Ukrainians unprotected. Among the main priorities for the new air-defense system will be to secure troops and supply lines in the war zone, and to defend people living closest to the front. In the southern cities of Kherson and Nikopol, for instance, Russian drone units have begun to use pedestrians for target practice, hunting them on the streets in what Ukrainians call a “human safari.”

Read: Ukraine’s latest attacks showcase its desperation

Both cities sit directly on the front line, across the Dnipro River from large formations of Russian troops. During my most recent visit to the area, in 2024, the then-mayor of Nikopol, Yevhen Yevtushenko, told me that its residents usually run errands on rainy days, because enemy drones tend to hunt in fair weather. “Our best means of shooting them down is with these missiles we’ve been getting from abroad,” Yevtushenko said, citing the German launcher known as the IRIS-T. “That’s a problem, because nobody is going to use those expensive rockets to shoot down a little drone.”

The dilemma seemed insurmountable at the time. But Ukrainian technology has caught up faster than either of us had expected. None of the weapons would be capable of shooting down Russia’s advanced ballistic missiles, which only the U.S.-made Patriot batteries have proved capable of reliably defeating. But when it comes to the cruder drones and rockets that Russia flings at Ukrainian cities every day, the many tinkerers of Ukraine seem much closer to a solution than they were just a year ago. “It can be done, and it needs to be done,” Yelizarov said at the end of our interview. “Because we don’t have any other choice.”

The night after he took up his new job, the Russians launched another wave of drones and cruise missiles at Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, cutting off power and heat in the capital during one of the winter’s coldest nights. The following morning, Yelizarov saw a post on social media demanding to know why the new head of air defenses had not stopped the barrage. “I’d been on the job for less than a day, and already I was being called a failure,” he said with a smile. “I understand. People want results now. They want them yesterday.”

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“There are no good hands anymore”: Training gaps erode Ukraine’s air defenses

Lack of training time prevents mobilized personnel from mastering air defense systems

By Igor Kossov | 10/02/2026

While Russia more than doubled its drone and missile strikes last year, Ukrainians’ interception rate fell from 96.58% in January 2025 to 82.7% in December, according to the Institute for Science and International Security.

There are multiple reasons for this decline, from better drones and tactics on the Russian side, to equipment and personnel shortages on the Ukrainian side. But training is an important reason that often goes overlooked.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/10/there-are-no-good-hands-anymore
-training-gaps-erode-ukraines-air-defenses/

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US support at rock bottom

Author: Oleh Velhan | Thu, February 12, 2026

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/us-support-at-rock-bottom-surprising-p
layer-1770849754.html

Europe increased its military aid to Ukraine by 67% in 2025, effectively replacing support from the US, which collapsed by 99%, according to the updated data from the Ukraine Support Tracker and an analytical paper, Kiel Policy Brief, by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

From the US there was only one "symbolic" military support package worth approximately €0.4 billion, and no new major financial or humanitarian commitments were recorded.

https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/ukraine-support-after-4-
years-of-war-europe-steps-up/

https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Dateiverwaltung/IfW-Publications
/fis-import/dd24a73f-4270-46c5-9c40-bcc9df4f1672-KPB2023_EN.pdf

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Russian losses in Ukraine 'astonishing,' former MI6 chief says

February 11, 2026 9:12 pm

https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-latest-128/

Russia may have lost about twice as many soldiers in Ukraine in December 2025 as the Soviet Union lost during the Soviet-Afghan War, a former British intelligence chief said on Feb. 10.

Sir Richard Moore, the former MI6 chief, gave an interview on Sky News' on the World podcast with journalist Yalda Hakim on Feb. 10, where he said that about 30,000 Russians were killed in Ukraine in December, describing the number as "astonishing."

Moore compared this monthly death toll for Russian soldiers to the casualties in the Soviet-Afghan war, which lasted for 10 years (1979-1989) and resulted in the death of approximately 15,000 Soviet soldiers.

"The losses are terrible, and even the Russians will struggle to replace that level of losses. So, they continue to do appallingly badly on the battlefield," Moore said.

When he left his job in 2025, the former head of MI6 Sir Richard Moore said that he didn't think he’d left the world in a better place than when he was first appointed in 2020.



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